In this talk, Swami Nirmalananda states, “Yoga and life are all about love.” Therefore, it is important to find out the answer to that big question, what exactly is love? 

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In this discourse, Gurudevi describes the inner knowing “I am” or “aham” in Sanskrit. “I am” is a complete sentence. It is the knowing of your own perfection. While you may try and become perfect on the outside, Gurudevi explains how perfection is found within. She gives you the explanation and the inner experience.

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To give without strings. To serve without acknowledgement. This is called seva or selfless service. In her discourse, Gurudevi explores the yoga of seva and asks you to look at your own motivations. Why do you do what you do? When you give without looking for a reward, you are on the divine path of seva, a superhighway to enlightenment.

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Beingness is awareness is free will. Gurudevi Nirmalananda breaks down this mystical formula to explain how you have the power of free will. What are you doing with it?

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You are divine and so is the world. This is one of the teachings of Kashmiri Shaivism. Gurudevi walks you through the mystical teachings of her tradition, as well as reveals the key – the awakening of your own cosmic energy.

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Uprightness, serenity, compassion, fearlessness — these are a few of the divine virtues that blossom forth when you practice yoga & meditation. In her discourse, Gurudevi Nirmalananda explains how this happens by pointing you towards the source within — your own Self. When you discover this inner source, life just keeps getting better.

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Gurudevi describes how love gets mixed up with lust and need. She compares what we think love is to divine love, which is unconditional and unlimited. Where can you find this divine love? You must look inward to the source. Shaktipat, the cosmic inner awakening, opens the way inward so that you can access and live in your Self, the source of love-itself. 

A fundamental question: is what you seek attainable?  Swami Nirmalananda poses this question both at the beginning and the end of this discourse.  In the middle lies a deep teaching.

Come listen as Gurudevi brings the Four Great Statements of the ancient Upanishads to life!  She explains how to develop an understanding of these teachings at their deepest level.

You were born to know your Self. Without this inner knowing, you feel incomplete.  Gurudevi names the 12 darshanas (ways of seeing) that are the different approaches to the meaning and goals of life. She describes non-dualistic Kashmiri Shaivism and her own Guru as revealing the mystery that has been hidden for lifetimes — the Truth of who you are, Consciousness incarnate. 

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